Hairdressing device



L. HICKS HAIRDRESSING DEVICE May a, 1923. 1,454,641

Filed Feb. 28. 1922 Patented May 8, 1923.

1 Mrs LINZY HICKS, or OMAHA, rialsResign.v

HAIRDR-ESSING- DEVICE;

Application filed February 28, 1922. Serial No.539,864.

ToaZZw/wm it mag concern: Be it known that I,"LINZY HIoKs,a c1t1- zen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new andnseful Improvements in Hairdressing QDQVICGS; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others sk lled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

' This invention relates to improvements in hair dressing devices, and more particularly to the type adapted for curling or waving, the hair.

An object in view is the production of an inexpensively constructed curling or waving device which is so formed as to effectively protect the hair against breakage, undu strain or stretching. u

With this and further ob ects in view as will in part hereinafter become apparent and in part be stated, the invention cornprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts as subse quently specified and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,----- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a device embodying the features of the present invention.

Figure 2 is an edge View thereof.

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on the plane indicated by line 3-3 of F1gure 1.

Figure d is a view similar to Figure 2 of the same folded for application to bobbed hair as distinguished from its use on long hair in the form seen in Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a transverse section taken on the plane indicated by line 55 of Figure 2.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, 1

indicates a core or stiffening strip, prefer ably of thin sheet metal or other appropriate material possessing sufficient stab lity and being pliable but only slightly resilient.

Surrounding the core 1 is an elastic tube 2,

preferably of rubber of a thickness sufficient to provide the capacity on the part of the tube for retaining its walls spaced from the core 1 except at the lines of contact along the edges of the core. There is thus left air spaces 3, 3, between the fiat faces of the core 1 and the adjacent inner surfaces of the casing 2, which, in operation, afford a pneumatic cushion. The casing 2 is of greater length than the core 1 and the core 1 is of sufficient width to causethe casing atthose portionsengaged by the core to be somewhat flattened as distinguished from the cylindricalform of the casing before the in troduction of the core, whereby the end portions of the casing 2 guard against any possible injury to the hair ofjthe uservby contact with-the ends of thecorel. i

The instrument or device is preferably 1;:

project in the form of soft enlargement: .4, l4, and effectively come short of the'end of the section ofrubber tube, and the core stripis proportioned,

when vin this position, to have its rear end within the tube section, so that the end cushions or enlargements 4: are left. The width of the core 1 relative to the natural diameter of the rubber tube section is such as to cause the tube to be flattened and held in its ovalshape throughout the length of the core 1, as indicated in Figure 3 and the contact of the edges of the strip 1 against the inner surface of the rubber tube 2 is sufficiently tight to produce such a frictional engagement as to prevent the core 1 from being accidentally dislocated or moved relative to the surrounding casing or tube 2.

In utilizing the improved device, it may be employed after the manner ofany 'ordinary hair curler,.but, by preference, the device in its straight orelongated shape, as indicated in Figures 1 and 2, is employed for producing waves in the natural long hair against injury incident to the roundedform of the device, its and its cushioned ends.

In Figures 4 and 5, the device is illustrated as bent at 5 to produce a return portion, and when so bent the device is especially well pneumatic cushions adapted for use in curling bobbed or short hair. When so used, the cushioning enlargement 4 of the return portion effectively protects the hair, as a bunch of hair is introduced into the bight of the hook formed by the return portion. After the hair is clamped, by being moved edgewise into the space between the main and return portions, the device is rotated for wrapping the hair about the device, and then the opposite end portion may be bent over, or other precaution taken for retaining the hair in this Wrapped or curled condition until the hair assumes a condition causingv it to remain curled after the device has been removed, as is true of various hair curlers now in use. The essential advantage and diiference'in the present'improved hair curler over those known is incident to'the protection of the hair against possible injury as above mentioned. I

What is claimed is 1. A hair dressing device comprising a strip of relatively thin sheet material, and

an elastic casing surrounding the strip and engaging the same in a manner to leave an air cushion between portions of the casing and the strip along the length of the strip.

-2. A hair dressing device comprising a I strip of relatively thin sheet material, and

an elastic casing surrounding the strip and ,frictionally engaging the edges thereof in a manner to tension the casing while leaving portions of the casing spaced from the faces of the strip for producing air. cushions between such faces and the casing.

3. A hair dressing device comprising a strip of relatively thin sheet material and an elastic casing surrounding the strip and engaging the same in a manner to leave an air cushion extending along the full length of thestrip between portions of the casing and the strip, the strip being shorter than the casing and the end portions of the casing projecting beyond'the strip being in the form of enlarged cushions.

4. A hair dressing device comprisinga stripof relatively thin sheet material, and an elastic casing surrounding the strip and engaging the-same in a-manner to leave .an air cushion between portions of the casing and the strip lengthwise thereof, a portion of the casing and strip being bent back upon the balance thereof for forming a hair-receiving bight, the bent back portion having a similar air cushion.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: I

l/VAYNE E. SAwrnLL, HELENE S. DENNIS.

LINZY HICKS. 

